on Tocqueville’s view of relations between ‘the three races that inhabit the United States’

Tocqueville is unremittingly bleak in this section of the book.  Why do you think he is he so pessimistic about the possibility of harmony between the ‘three races’ (by which he means people of European descent, people of African descent,… Read moreon Tocqueville’s view of relations between ‘the three races that inhabit the United States’